Pith Number

pith:I3POYHCK

pith:2017:I3POYHCKYFKHC4XHDI46HQUM64

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Two-Armed Bandit Problem, Data Processing, and Parallel Version of the Mirror Descent Algorithm

Alexander Kolnogorov, Alexander Nazin, Dmitry Shiyan

arxiv:1705.09977 v1 · 2017-05-28 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I3POYHCKYFKHC4XHDI46HQUM64}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:43:34.043609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46deec1c4ac1547172e71a39e3c28cf72d9e61e64152d0970b441ea649c3e4d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09977 · arxiv_version: 1705.09977v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09977 · pith_short_12: I3POYHCKYFKH · pith_short_16: I3POYHCKYFKHC4XH · pith_short_8: I3POYHCK

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I3POYHCKYFKHC4XHDI46HQUM64 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 46deec1c4ac1547172e71a39e3c28cf72d9e61e64152d0970b441ea649c3e4d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d6f4da46d9d62d64489b5857c571811254f8588630e9c6024f735259b15755c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-28T18:51:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca35386433b9619eb37616185db322c5fed8fe413943cd94b93d91ef496406f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09977",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}